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Average words in a sentence: 22. Maximum length of a sentence: 98 words.
I'm not doing it on purpose, I swear. Is it even possible to write decent prose if the sentences are that long? Is it necessarily a symptom of some fatal flaw -- self-indulgence, maybe just bad writing? I will not know until later, thank you, Mr. Earbrass.
I was also not happy to recall that The Tin Drum, which was given to me to read when I was twelve and was therefore an extremely influential book for me, also has a small young man with a drum surviving 20th century war in a landscape which is not Poland. But it's totally different! It's not the same not-Poland! It's not the same being small! it's not the same kind of drum! It's not even the same war!
Anyway, Yanek is four years old now, and the Duke-to-be is born, and Yanek's sister's stepmother has started calling him a petit chevalier and dressing him funny. But she'll lose interest in that when he gets old enough to fetch and carry and watch the younger children. There will be times when he may as well be Cinderella as Tom Thumb.
I'm not doing it on purpose, I swear. Is it even possible to write decent prose if the sentences are that long? Is it necessarily a symptom of some fatal flaw -- self-indulgence, maybe just bad writing? I will not know until later, thank you, Mr. Earbrass.
I was also not happy to recall that The Tin Drum, which was given to me to read when I was twelve and was therefore an extremely influential book for me, also has a small young man with a drum surviving 20th century war in a landscape which is not Poland. But it's totally different! It's not the same not-Poland! It's not the same being small! it's not the same kind of drum! It's not even the same war!
Anyway, Yanek is four years old now, and the Duke-to-be is born, and Yanek's sister's stepmother has started calling him a petit chevalier and dressing him funny. But she'll lose interest in that when he gets old enough to fetch and carry and watch the younger children. There will be times when he may as well be Cinderella as Tom Thumb.
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